Bwahaha. I am writing this from the table downstairs, thanks to the wifi finally set up for the house. It doesn't reach -quite- to my bedroom, but I'm one step closer to my ultimate goal of being able to do all of my homework from my bed. Bwahahahahaha.

I'm sure you all have something like this, but there are certain songs that I just love for no real apparent reason. Not songs of great inherent value, but songs or bits of songs that make me happy ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't had to deal with it recently, the GRE is to grad school (or nursing school in my case) as the SAT is to college. It has 4 sections - Verbal, Quantitative (Math), and then two essays. It's a computerized test that adjusts its own difficulty based on how well you're doing at answering the questions, and once you finish ( Read more... )

So, I have a new hamster. I stopped by the animal shelter and adopted "Fuzz", who is now being renamed "Peach Fuzz" so I can call her "Peachy" because she's a short-hair Teddy Bear hamster with orange fur but a white undercoat, so it looks like a cheap dyejob with white roots showing. And she gives herself a mohawk (which I'm calling a "ham-hawk ( Read more... )

When I have some free time, I want to look up dresses designed by Henry van de Velde.

Just got back from a nice evening out - had Japanese for dinner, then went to see Stardust ( Read more... )

Me and Abby - we're the two sisters, though I don't know why she's sneering ( Read more... )

I'm sure I've mentioned Giant Microbes before, and already own plushies of "Sore Throat" (http://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/sorethroat.html) and "Sleeping Sickness" (Read more... )

The cup for my daily grande chai from Starbucks usually has the quote on music by the neurologist who wrote "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" - or something like that, which talks about the emotional power of music, and how it has the ability to exalt the soul or bring us to tears - often, in my experience, it does both at the same time ( Read more... )

I want an ice cream maker. I blame the article in the paper about home ice cream makers with built-in cooling systems that are coming down in price (only around $200 - not exactly cheap) and gave tips and recipes for ice cream ( Read more... )